Suggest a bad movie

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  • Nairn0

    I watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind the other day, it'd been a while.

    On the one hand, it's classic 80s Spielberg and has that visual magic and playful build up of tension he's so good at, but on the other - the main character is a cunt who leaves his wife and kids, the aliens are random-ass trolling shitstains who think nothing of hoying people through time, essentially killing them from the viewpoint of the fmaily of those pilots who got caught up in the Bermuda Triangle, etc - or scaring the shit out of a mother whilst abducting her kid, only to give him back days later - for what? None of it makes sense. None of it has any useful thought. It's fucking long.

    It is quite pretty though.

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    • Based on the popular ufo stories of that day. Also with no internet back then, the movie would've been amazing for those folks in the '70sgrafician
    • Oh fuck, it was from 78 wasn't it?

      Durr. Still.      Nairn
    • I need to watch E.T. again.

      Fucking loved that shit when I was a kid.      Nairn
    • I mean, the movie 3D visualised the ufo stories only published on paper back then. Pretty cool for those days, but today not so much.grafician
    • simpler plots for simpler times...grafician
    • it's a little slow at times but so many great set pieces. Great stuff about Spielberg and Lucas both thinking they'd made a sci-fi turkey at the same timefadein11
    • Both praising each others film as a masterpiece and shit scared their own was shit.fadein11
    • you have a link to that, fadein?
      what is that?      Nairn
    • er.. I mean like "I'd like to know more" not "CITE YOUR FUCKING SOURCES, CUNT!"Nairn
    • https://time.com/436…fadein11
    • the fuller story is in a book on 70's cinema I read a while back... will dig out, got it here somewherefadein11
    • https://i.imgur.com/…fadein11
    • they always helped each other early on, there's a section on Spielberg's paranoia about Close Encounters, but I will look sad taking another pic won't I?fadein11
    • +1 thanksNairn
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